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Lu à l’ouest, le crime de l’est a du lest [PDF]

Caietele Echinox, 2022
Based on a corpus of Eastern and Western crime novels dealing with crime in the former Eastern Bloc countries, three issues are examined: the globalization of the crime fiction market through French translation and a few of its deterritorializing ...
Paul Bleton
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Crime Fiction in German: [PDF]

, 2016
This open access chapter is from Crime Fiction in German, edited by Katharina Hall (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2016), pp. 1-32. The chapter provides an overview of the Crime Fiction in German volume and the history of German-language crime ...
Katharina Hall
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Crime Scenes: Latin American Crime Fiction from the 1960s to the 2010s

, 2019
Crime fiction has become a key element in Latin American literature. The rise in output of the genre can be explained by an urgency to explore issues of morality in societies which incorporate varying levels of censorship and corruption.

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Why not translate metaphor in French crime fiction? The case of Cary Férey's Utu

JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2014
Crime fiction's positioning as a low status popular genre has implications for the translation of textual markers normally associated with high literature.
Ellen Carter
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Style et idéologie dans le roman noir

Itinéraires, 2015
This article aims to examine the way in which the ideological posture of late twentieth century crime fiction writers impacts on stylistic and structural aspects of the text. Taking novels by Jean-Patrick Manchette, Didier Daeninckx and Dominique Manotti
Véronique Desnain
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‘Why can’t y’all be like Perry Mason?’: Black Panther Autobiography Meets Crime Fiction

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2020
In this study, I examine the autobiographies of four activists associated with the Black Panther Party, namely, Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton, Assata Shakur and Elaine Brown, investigating their use of a number of conventions taken from crime fiction ...
Chloé Avril
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Scandinavian Crime Fiction: a review of recent scholarship

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2013
: The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented outpouring of crime fiction from the Scandinavian countries: Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland.
John Lingard
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French crime fiction [PDF]

, 2003
Chapter 4‘The detection of crime is evidently not an art that has been cultivated in England.’ ‘Our Detective Police’, Chambers Journal, 1884. It is not for nothing that Moriarty was otherwise known as the Napoleon of crime, that Poe's Chevalier Dupin ...
Schütt, Sita A., Sita A . Schütt
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Kate Atkinson’s Crime Fiction: Exception as a Rule

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2020
This essay discusses the relationship between crime fiction and exception in Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie novels. By definition, crime novels depend on exception because deviation from the ordinary is the starting point of a plot and because they ...
Armelle Parey
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WRITING SOCIOLOGICAL CRIME FICTION

Art/Research International, 2021
In this article I share and discuss a poetic work of experimental sociological crime fiction titled “You Will Have Your Day in Court” (in Crockett Thomas, 2020c).
Phil Crockett Thomas
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